Join us on September 22, 2016
Józef Piłsudski's Municipal Stadium of Legia Warsaw
The event commences at 9:30 AM

Born on 3 October 1984 in Tychy. He graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Silesia in Katowice with a degree in political science. As an athlete, he was many times a member of the Polish national team in the 400m race. He was twice a silver medallist in the Polish Athletics Junior Championships in 2005 and 2006; a gold medallist in 4×400 metre relay in the 2005 European Athletics Junior Championships in Erfurt; a gold and silver medallist in the Summer Universiade in Bangkok (2007) and Belgrade (2009), respectively. In 2007 he won a bronze medal in the World Athletics Championships in Osaka. In 2008 he received the Mayor of Tychy’s award for merit in sport and culture. In 2009, he was the youngest ever delegate to the reporting and electoral assembly of the Polish Athletics Association, where he represented the Silesian Athletics Association.

In 2012 he officially ended his sports career. He became active in the public relations sector and delivered training courses in media relations and image management; he cooperated with leading Polish companies on advertising production creation and PR strategy building.

On 16 November 2015 he was appointed Minister of Sport and Tourism in the government of Prime Minister Beata Szydło.

He still practises sport, for example, he runs marathons.

Zbigniew Boniek was born on 3 March 1958 in Bydgoszcz. Boniek is a former Polish footballer and coach. He first played at Zawisza Bydgoszcz and later at Widzew Łódź. Boniek was named by Pelé as one of the 125 Greatest Living Footballers and by FIFA as one of the 100 best-ever players. On 12 October 2009 he received a Golden Foot career award.

Boniek was transferred to Italian football giants Juventus in 1982. That same year he won a bronze medal (third place) as part of the Polish team at the 1982 FIFA World Cup. With Juventus he won the Cup Winners’ Cup and the European Super Cup in 1984 (scoring in the final of the former) and the European Cup in 1985.

Boniek represented Poland in 80 internationals and scored 24 goals. After finishing his professional career at A.S. Roma in 1988 he had a successful business career. As a player, Boniek was known for his blistering pace and acceleration. He was one of the best dribblers of his time and also displayed superb technique. The Juventus president Gianni Agnelli nicknamed him Bello di notte („Beauty at night”) because of his performance at evening matches.

Boniek has served as vice-president of the Polish Football Association, and in July 2002 he became the head coach of Poland. On 26 October 2012, he became the chairman of the Polish Football Association.

Arno Hermans Sport eXperience founder

My love for sports comes down to soccer and volleyball. As captain of the regional volleyball team, we became the Dutch champion in 1996. As an engineer, I’ve gotten the opportunity to discover different technologies in different sectors, and be involved in multiple sectors as well as setting up a Sports Engineering department. During the years, I grew up with the energy of Startups. When you make that combination; sports, technology and Startups, there’s an accelerator born. By interviewing 100 stakeholders in 2015, I got the confirmation that The Netherlands was ready for a Sports Accelerator. And Sport eXperience is the result.

In January 2014 Bartosz Ciołkowski was appointed Country Manager at MasterCard Europe (Branch Office Poland). Prior to this role, as Head of Sales, he managed the sales team and was responsible for growing MasterCard’s business in Poland.

Bartosz Ciołkowski began his career at BZ WBK Bank. Before joining MasterCard he worked at Bank Pekao SA, supervising the operations of the Card Business Development Department. He joined MasterCard in 2005 as Account Manager. In 2007 he assumed Product Sales Specialist position to develop credit cards products business in Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Ukraine. In 2009 he took a responsibility to grow business of MasterCard® Advisors in the Central and Eastern European countries, implementing over 50 projects in the field of payments products profitability optimization, innovative products development as well as loyalty programs and co-branding projects development.

Bartosz Ciołkowski is a graduate of Faculty of Economics at University of Economics in Poznan with a specialization in the field of economic policy and strategy.

President & CEO on nc+ platform since 2015. He has over 17 years of experience in the media and is one of the most experienced managers in CANAL +. His skills and knowledge were used in group activities conducted in different countries.

He started his professional career in 1995 in Unifrance Film International. In 1998 he was a member of the Organizing Committee of the football World Cup in France, and a year later entered the TPS Programme board. In 2003, he became President of MULTIVISION / TPSVOD.

Since January 2007 he joined Canal + Overseas as a channels and programming cooperations manager. In 2009 he became an executive director in VSTV (CANAL + Overseas representative office in Vietnam). From 1 June 2012, he was Managing Director of CANAL + Caledonia.

Jacek Kurski – born on February 22, 1966 in Gdańsk. A Polish journalist and a former politician, holding the degree in economics.
On January 8, 2016, upon the decision of the Minister of State Treasury, he was nominated as the President of the Management Board of Telewizja Polska. From November 20, 2015 until January 7, 2016, as Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, he was in charge of operations meant to protect the copyright and related rights: press rights protection.
In 2009 – 2014 he was the MP in the European Parliament of the VII term of office. The first Chairman of EFD Europe for Freedom and Democracy. From 2005 to 2009, the MP in the Polish Sejm, V and VI terms of office. He held the position of the Deputy Chairman in the State Treasury Committee and the Member of the Culture and Mass Media Commission.
In 2002- 2005 he was a Deputy Chairman in the Regional Assembly of Pomorskie Province and, earlier on, in 1998-2001, he worked as a Deputy Chairman in the Pomorskie Province Government, as a Vice Marshall of the Province, responsible for culture units.
From 1994 until 1998 he conducted Jacek-FILM, an advertising and broadcasting agency.
In 1993 he released the book entitled „Lewy czerwcowy” (The June Left-Handed Punch), written in cooperation with Piotre Semka, containing the list of interviews with politicians associated with the government headed by Jan Olszewski, covering off-the-record issues referring to the cabinet dismissal back in June 1992. A year later, he produced the movie named „Nocna zmiana” (The Night Shift], elaborating on the same plot.
In 1991-1994 he collaborated with Telewizja Polska. He and Piotr Semka hosted „Reflex”,
a program on TVP1, and „Lewiatan”, along with Wiesław Walendziak. In addditon, he was a co-author of „Sprawa dla reportera” (The Reporter’s Case), a program of Elżbieta Jaworowicz, and was
a founder and host of the „Rozmowy karcianego stołu” (Talks at the Card Table) cycle.
In the turn of 1980 and 1990 he was publishing articles in the independent and right-wing press, including “Tygodnik Solidarność” weekly. He was a freelancer working for the DPA Agency, a Gdańsk correspondent of the Polish BBC Section and the newscaster in the underground radio „Solidarność”. A participant of strikes in 1988.
In private, he is a football lover. In 1998-2002 he was the CEO of the Lechia Gdańsk Football Center. In 2001 he was awarded a Badge for The Distinguished Cultural Activist.

Graduated International Business Economics at the Maastricht University in the Netherlands and international business at the University of Economics in Poznan. He joined KKS Lech Poznan SA in 2006, where he created from scratch on the Scouting Department. Since 2012 he is Vice President of the Club and is responsible for managing the Football Department. His main goal at the Club is to implement the club strategy with its most important pillars, the Academy – preparing homegrown players for the 1st team, and the Scouting Department with its transfer policy.

Member of the Supervisory Board of Amica S.A.

I worked as a video analist at AFC Ajax for 2.5 years before joining the Beyond Sports team. At Beyond Sports, Nicolaas is responsible for the implementation of the Beyond Sports program in the everyday training of the different football clubs and teams that use it today. Being out in the field, he learns about the optimal way for professional coaches to analyze games and for athletes to train their decision making skills using the new powerful medium of VR.

‘EK88: my first impression of what a major sports event could be like. It changed my life. The Netherlands won their first and only cup. That moment created my ambition to do something within the sports industry. Something meaningful and something that would make me part of the industry as a whole, to be able to change it for the better.

Well diversified and with a broad ambition to make things better, that is how Sander would describe himself. He started of as account manager at a major media production firm and soon climbed in his role and landed the position of Business development manager.

Soon after that he became commercial director. After that formative period his path took a sudden turn and changed for the better of an industry. It lead him through technology company Triple as sales director, and into the future of sports. This is how Beyond Sports was born and this is how it is aiming to revolutionize the sports industry. Through technology into the next era: into the future.

Mark Snijders is a former football player. He played in his hometown for AZ Alkmaar and spent three years playing in the Football League with Port Vale. After his football career Mark started to work for AZ Alkmaar as a commercial manager. In this period he found out that he had the competencies to evolve creative ideas and realize them with his commercial skills.

Mark is a multi entrepreneur who founded several companies in sportsmedia and he also founded an exclusive gentlemen’s society. In February 2016 Mark joined the Beyond Sports team to win the World Cup. With his creative commercial ideas and his network in football he has the goal to enlarge the Beyond Sports family with new clubs, players, brand-ambassadors, scientists and colleagues who all believe in this great VR solution for professional sportclubs.

‘To improve athletes, clubs and especially football players’, feels really good.

Born in 1986 in Cracow, former athlete, sprinter specialized in 400 metres, multimodal holder from Polish Championships of all age categories, silver medal winner from U18 in Sherbrooke, Canada and bronze medal winner from U20 Europe Championships in Kowno, where he was chosen to act as the captain of the Polish Representation.

He started his professional career in 2008 in the B2B sales department of the Plus network, later he managed sales teams and marketing and promotion for brands like Play, Enea, PGE. From November 2015 he acts as a Special Adviser to the Minister of Sport and Tourism.

He is a sport aficionado, especially interested in the psychological effects of the competition. Also interested in new technologies, he is an e- sport industry analytic especially in comparison to the classical meaning of the term.

Graduate of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium (European Masters in Public Administration) and the University of Warsaw (Administration). He was also awarded a scholarship to the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien from the Minister of Education, Science and Culture of the Republic of Austria. He has over 13 years of experience in the area of European funds.

In previous years he worked in the Consulting Plus Sp. z o.o., where he headed projects connected to the European funds and acted as a Chairman of the Board. He created the series of TEKLA PLUS projects which promoted a cooperation between small and middle- sized enterprises and the R&D sector. The projects where implemented in cooperation with major research centres and educational institutions in Poland. He is also a co- founder of fundujesz.pl- the first Polish digital crowdfunding platform, dedicated to the funding of social initiatives.

He comes from Silesia. During his football career he was associated with Ruch Chorzów, Legia Warszawa, in the period when the Club was playing in the Champions League and Pogoń Szczecin, where he finished his active career after the season 2001/2002. In 2012 he became the V-ce Chairman of the Board of Wisła Kraków and later on, the Chairman of the Board. From 2014 until June 2016 he acted as a proxy of the Board for Ruch Chorzów SA. On July 1st 2016 he was nominated to the Board of Ekstraklasa SA, where he is responsible for the development of football academies, youth development programs in the Ekstraklasa clubs and the cooperation with stakeholders and the clubs of professional football league. He has a law degree.